Located at Taipei National University of the Arts, the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts has been consistently expanding its collection through donations since its opening. Many artworks with special connections to the museum itself and Taipei National University of the Arts have been acquired. The accumulated collection encompasses a diverse range of media, no less than large public art museums in Taiwan. Among them are numerous new media art pieces donated by faculty members or featured in exhibitions at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.

Starting in 2021, the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts collaborated with a private group of researcher—the Save Media Art. Each year, external time-based media art conservator regularly reside in the museum to analysis the condition of artworks and provide preservation suggestions to optimize the museum's collection infrastructure. This seminar marks the presentation of the results of the fourth phase of the Save Media Art Project. In addition to sharing the project's achievements by Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts staff and two project members, private media art conservators from Germany and France are also invited to share their collaborative experiences with local collecting institutions.

Andreas Weisser
(Time-based Media Art Consultant)

Preserving Time-Based Media: Bridging Gaps through Collaboration with External Specialists

Andreas Weisser studied conservation and restoration at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Since 2003 he works as a conservator for time-based media and as a preservation manager for audiovisual collections. His consultancy focuses on the support of public and private collections for analogue and digital long-term preservation and storage of contemporary art, light-art and time- based media art. In 2015, he joined Doerner Institute, Munich in a part time position. There he is responsible for the preservation of the time-based media art collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Museum Brandhorst. In 2019 he co-founded »Preservation as a Service« with Dr. Anna Schäffler. With their shared expertise they develop holistic and sustainable preservation strategies for art and cultural assets at the intersection of art history and conservation. He held lectures in conservation at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Cologne and Berlin, and is together with Anna guest lecturer at the Amsterdam University. From 2012 to 2014 he worked as Consultant for Deutsche Welle Akademie in North Africa and Middle East and 2020 for Goethe Institute in India.

Alexandre Michaan
(Media Art Cconservator)

The challenges of media art conservation and collection management in French museums

Alexandre Michaan is a media art conservator based in Paris. After graduating at the National institute for cultural heritage in France, and a stay at the conservation laboratory of LIMA in Amsterdam, where he worked on obsolete software-based artworks for CD-ROM, he has been since 2013 specializing in the preservation of audiovisual artworks threatened by obsolescence. He is currently working as a researcher, on a PhD focused on documentation procedures for the preservation of media artworks at Université de Saint-Etienne, and worked in the past years at Centre Pompidou on the digitization of video collections, and the conservation study of Chris Marker’s video and computer-based installation Zapping Zone.

Yi-hua Hsieh
(Exhibition and Collection Executive, KdMoFA)

Please Keep the SOP: A Beginner's Trajectory to Collecting Media Art Works in the KdMoFA

Yi-hua Hsieh is a graduate of the Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts at TNUA. She specializes in woodblock printmaking and prose creation. Currently, she works in the exhibition department and collection department of the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. During her collaboration with the "Save Media Art" project, she gained hands-on experience with the borrowing of KdMoFA's collection titled "Out of Position" and completed the iteration report of the work along with an interview featuring the artist Yuan, Goang-Ming.

Tzu-chuan Lin
(International Affairs Manager of Save Media Art Project / Assistant Time-based Media Art Conservator)

4 Years of the Save Media Art Project - Opportunity and Restriction from the field of Taiwan

Tzu-chuan Lin is the International Affairs Manager of the “Save Media Art” project by Taiwan Digital Art Foundation. Meanwhile, he is currently working as an Assistant Conservator for Time-Based Media at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany. He holds an MA in Conservation of New Media and Digital Information from the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart. During his studies, he completed internships in media art and digital art conservation at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Germany, and LI-MA in the Netherlands. His most recent research focus is on the conservation of software-based artworks.

Yu-hsien Chen
(Project Director of Save Media Art / Independent Researcher)

Yu-hsien Chen is the director of the Save Media Art, Time-based Media Art conservator and born-digital heritage advocate. Formerly served as associate digital and media art conservator at Mplus Museum, Hong Kong; project assistant of the collection management department, National Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan. In 2022, Chen received the Fulbright Scholarship and spend her research visit at the Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) and Rhizome, New York City, USA. Her first involvement of preserving media art was the experience in 2014 as CD-Rom Art archivist at Mediamatc in the Netherlands.

Organizers: Digital Art Foundation ; KdMoFA, TNUA
Sponspor: National Culture and Arts Foundation



＊This event will be conducted in English, the slides and transcripts of presentation notes will be printed out in Chinese and English. Translation support is available while at the Q&A session and roundtable discussion.